How humans evolved bigger brains, eLife Science Digests
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Brain size increased rapidly during human evolution due to the expansion of many brain regions, resulting in human brains being exceptionally larger than those of our closest relatives.
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Primitive humans with a third of our brains were not wiped out but lived alongside us for millennia, The Independent
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Human Brain Size and its Evolution explained by Wieland Huttner
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Why do Humans Have Such Large Brains? Our Study Suggests Ecology Was the Driving Force
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The impact of environmental factors on the evolution of brain size in carnivorans
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Evolution of the Human Brain: From Matter to Mind
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Evolutionary shaping of human brain dynamics
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The economics of brain size evolution in vertebrates - ScienceDirect
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A connectome and analysis of the adult Drosophila central brain
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Evolutionary shaping of human brain dynamics
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